This is actually just a very short post to get my name back up in the list on the right side of SQLBlog, because Adam’s configuration removes people who haven’t posted in 3 months. I’ve been extremely busy trying to get my new book finished, and then get my course updated for its first delivery this week. I’ll be teaching it again in ...

I got a couple of really great questions during my SSWUG Workshop this morning, as I was discussing seeks and scans, and since the answers to the two questions are very related, I decided to address both of them in more detail in this blog post.
Most people think about a seek operation as retrieving just one or a few rows, and a scan as ...

This Friday is the last of my summer seminars. On August 27, I am presenting on plan caching, plan reuse and recompile and plan cache metadata. This is one of my favorite topics to talk about, because a lot of the information is not very widely known, and you can have a tremendous performance impact by making sure when plans are reused when that ...

Yesterday was a rebroadcast of the index internals seminar I presented last February, and I had forgotten how long it was. I was in a chat room the whole time, and the questions just kept coming, fast and (not so) furious! Thanks to all the participants for making it a really exciting 5 hours for me. I really appreciated all your enthusiasm.
My ...

Once again, I'll be presenting an online seminar through SSWUG. This on is on Index Internals. The presentation lasts over 3 and a half hours, and I'll be online for live chat for over 4 hours. Ask away! We'll look at juicy details of exactly how clustered and nonclustered indexes differ from each other'. I'll show you how to display the actual ...

I know, I haven't made a geeky post in a while... but I promise that I'll do one after this seminar. I'll take some of the best questions that I get during the chat and write them up here.
Query Plans Workshop (June 30, 2010) Learn about basic elements, tools for exploring your query plans, how to detect inefficient plans and best practice ...

As I told you in April, I recorded two more seminars with Stephen Wynkoop, on aspects of Query Processing. The first one will be broadcast on June 30 and the second on August 27. In between, we'll broadcast my Index Internals seminar, on July 23. Workshops can be replayed for up to a week after the broadcast, and you can even buy a DVD of ...

I am in Tucson again, having just recorded two more online workshops to be broadcast by SSWUG. We haven't set the dates yet, but we are thinking about offering a special package deal for the two of them. The topics really are related and I think they would work well together.
They are both on aspects of Query Processing. The first was on how to ...

I am really jazzed! The seminar was over 3.5 hours in length, and we had 3 15-20 minute breaks, during which questions just kept coming in the chat room. I barely got out to refill my coffee! But there were some great questions and a really enthusiastic audience, so I want to thank everyone who participated. I stuck around afterwards for more ...

I know, my Geek City posts are usually really technical, but I figured it’s only Geeks who are going to want a solid 24 hours of SQL Server presentations… so this post is dedicated to all the SQL Server Geeks out there!
I will be presenting as part of 24 hours of PASS, on September 2. You can read about my session (“What’s Simple about Simple ...